Following extensive domestic and international protests

The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man who had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in 2014.

Without any executions

A study by The Sentencing Project

A Gilak political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht

Eleven accused who stood indicted with murder were found guilty and sentenced to death by Uva Province High Court Judge Prasanna Alwis, Daily Mirror reported on January 31, 2025.

A Chattogram court on February 3, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife, who was pregnant at the time, over conflict centring dowry.

Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced that the Central Criminal Court has sentenced nine Iraqi drug traffickers to death after convicting them of smuggling and distributing illicit substances across the country, Kurdistan24 reported on January 29, 2025.

The Taichung branch of the High Court on January 22, 2025 overturned Yang Hung-ju’s death penalty and sentenced him to life in prison for double homicide.